David Crystal Quotes
We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it is there.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.
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I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
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I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.
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We filmed 'Expelled' in Santa Clarita at an all-girl's school. There were twelve hour days.
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E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.
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Both me and Ishmeet were very naughty. We used to have my grandfather's swords in the house. We used to take all these swords and take all the showpieces Mom had and slice them one by one. He actually locked my nana in the kitchen once for two hours.
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You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same time, and a powerful third force for self-awakening is created.
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I was a bouncer when I was in DePaul in Chicago at the theater school. I threw drunks out of bars - unless I had a play running that weekend. But I only had two actual fights. Some were like out of old Westerns.
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I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.
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A lot of times you have to dip into the independent world to find the really great projects and the really great scripts. They're out there - you just have to search hard.
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My parents were lovers of books, and they raised us in a manner that viewed freedom and subversion as indispensable.
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We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it is there.
